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<blockquote data-quote="Wolfwood2" data-source="post: 4045106" data-attributes="member: 39394">There is nothing in the current Rules As Written that makes it impossible for a fall off a horse to do more than D6 damage.&nbsp; (Or if you prefer, that it not result in an instant death effect that bypasses hitpoints.)&nbsp; Show me where in the PHB or the DMG it says that you can't die from falling off a horse if you have more than d6 hitpoints.More than d6 hitpoints of damage is not one of the options offered by rolling a die, but that is in no way the same thing as saying that other results are impossible.&nbsp; Rolling a die can only give you a limited subset of results of all the possible things that could happen.&nbsp; Presumably, if the results range has been well-defined, it will be the most common results.&nbsp; But not the only possible results.As for everyone arguing that they prefer a world where 20th level characters can never die from falling off a horse, that has nothing to do with the rules being the physics of the game world.&nbsp; Not a blessed thing.&nbsp; If powerful, competent people never die ignoble deaths, then that is just as much fluff as saying they do.&nbsp; It's not because they have a mess of hitpoints; it's because you want heroic people to die heroically.I think I demonstrated that when I offered the alternative scenario of a 1st level fighter falling off a horse, getting his foot entangled in the stirrups, and being dragged along the ground.&nbsp; That scenario is not going to come from rolling the dice anymore than a 20th level fighter falling off a horse and dying.&nbsp; Yet the few responses I got seemed to take it as okay for the DM to fiat that sort of thing, because it doesn't make a heroic person non-heroic.Because it makes sense by the fluff (as they perceive it.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wolfwood2, post: 4045106, member: 39394"] There is nothing in the current Rules As Written that makes it impossible for a fall off a horse to do more than D6 damage. (Or if you prefer, that it not result in an instant death effect that bypasses hitpoints.) Show me where in the PHB or the DMG it says that you can't die from falling off a horse if you have more than d6 hitpoints. More than d6 hitpoints of damage is not one of the options offered by rolling a die, but that is in no way the same thing as saying that other results are impossible. Rolling a die can only give you a limited subset of results of all the possible things that could happen. Presumably, if the results range has been well-defined, it will be the most common results. But not the only possible results. As for everyone arguing that they prefer a world where 20th level characters can never die from falling off a horse, that has nothing to do with the rules being the physics of the game world. Not a blessed thing. If powerful, competent people never die ignoble deaths, then that is just as much fluff as saying they do. It's not because they have a mess of hitpoints; it's because you want heroic people to die heroically. I think I demonstrated that when I offered the alternative scenario of a 1st level fighter falling off a horse, getting his foot entangled in the stirrups, and being dragged along the ground. That scenario is not going to come from rolling the dice anymore than a 20th level fighter falling off a horse and dying. Yet the few responses I got seemed to take it as okay for the DM to fiat that sort of thing, because it doesn't make a heroic person non-heroic. Because it makes sense by the fluff (as they perceive it.) [/QUOTE]

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